Word: pre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sugarplums, humbug! After covering the pre-Christmas offerings at some of the world's finest auction houses for this week's cover story on the "collectibles" craze, several TIME collectors had visions of something more elaborate dancing in their heads. Their Christmas lists follow...
...apparition from one of the dark Victorian paintings of which he is an avid collector. A New Yorker who owns several plastics companies, he accumulates paintings and bronzes because "there is nothing more exciting than to have great objects of art around." He concentrates on 19th century academics, pre-Raphaelites and symbolists, because at the time he began collecting 20 years ago they cost relatively little. Hofstra-educated Pivar has steeped himself in his field since then, reading exhaustively and traveling to important auctions around the world. Says he: "To be a knowledgeable collector of 19th century painting you have...
...euphoric confidence of today's art traders is a matter of historical myopia. How wonderful, we are told, that all things rise in price, as though in some universal resurrection and canonization of the dead. Twenty years ago, you might not have got $1,000 for the Pre-Raphaelite painting that now fetches $100,000. The $30,000 Tiffany lamp was not worth $3,000, and so on. One is left with the impression-indeed it is cultivated assiduously by the largest gaggle of public relations people ever to batten on the flank of culture-that art prices...
Maine, seeking fast pre-vacation times, decided beforehand that everyone on their team would shave (everything below their necks and outside their suits) for the meet...
...call those other games (five embarrassing losses and a single sloppy victory) a post-pre-season--a training period for this young, talented and now-confident squad...